Destroyed. Formerly built externally into the south wall, east of the south door

First recorded by Baldwin Brown in 1900 (Brown 1900b). The dial fell and was shattered in 1933; former position now marked by circular modern stone.

St Mary

Destroyed

On a square stone is a high-relief circular dial, the lower part of which is extensively damaged. There is a small central gnomon hole. The lower part of the dial is calibrated using incised lines, there being a pair of horizontals, a vertical, and three equally-spaced lines between each horizontal and the vertical.

The dial was built into a wall which was substantially pre-Conquest in date, apart from later fenestration. Presumably it was an original feature. The form of the dial, a circular dial projecting from a rectangular stone, was certainly popular in the late pre-Conquest period, occurring at the following Hampshire sites: Winchester St Michael 1 (Ill. 671); Warnford 1 (Ill. 478); and Corhampton 1 (Ill. 438). The calibration of the dial is also consistent with a pre-Conquest date.

Stones dating from Saxo-Norman overlap period or of uncertain date in eleventh century

Brown 1900b, 337; Gatty 1900, 68 - 9, fig. on 68; Johnston 1900b, 78, fig. 21; Malden 1905, 447; Johnston 1907, 16 - 17, fig. 4; Johnston 1913, 65; Green 1928, 504; Cox and Johnston 1935, 165, 193; Zinner 1939, 8; Zinner 1964, iii, 190; Taylor and Taylor 1965 - 78, ii, 574; Taylor and Taylor 1966, 25; Tweddle 1986b, i, 84 - 5, 189, ii, 493, iii, fig. 55